Black Rabbit Gallery · Artists
Benny
Bing
Benny Bing is a Canadian visual artist whose figurative practice explores identity, representation, presence, and the complexity of Black humanity.
Biography
Benny Bing
Benny Bing is a Canadian visual artist based in Toronto. Known for his figurative portraits, Bing uses grayscale skin, bold fields of colour, and direct compositions to examine identity, representation, gender, presence, and the emotional complexity of the human figure.
Bing developed his practice outside the conventional path of long-term gallery representation. His career has instead evolved through exhibitions, institutional presentations, public art, licensing, corporate partnerships, cultural collaborations, and direct relationships with collectors.
From 2018 to 2020, Bing's work was presented as part of Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms, a touring exhibition organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum. His practice has continued to move across art, design, sport, television, community, and public space.
Bing has collaborated with organizations and brands including IKEA, Roots Canada, Old Navy, Toronto FC, The Daniels Corporation, and Giants of Africa. In 2024, his work appeared in the NBC television series The Irrational and Brilliant Minds.
In 2026, Bing founded Black Rabbit Gallery in Toronto, extending the lessons of his own independent path into a platform for exhibitions, artist development, mentorship, community, and new models of opportunity.
He lives and works in Toronto.
Practice
Portraiture becomes a way of insisting on presence — not reducing a person to a symbol, but allowing complexity to remain.
Selected Works
Works
Artist Statement
Presence
My work begins with the face. I am interested in the ways a portrait can carry presence without needing to explain everything about the person being seen.
Working primarily in acrylic, I often remove colour from the skin while placing the figure against strong fields of colour. That contrast allows me to separate identity from conventional ideas of complexion while directing attention toward expression, gesture, character, and form.
The people I paint are not intended to represent a single idea of Blackness. I am interested in multiplicity — strength and vulnerability, intimacy and distance, confidence and uncertainty, individuality and collective experience.
Portraiture gives me a way to explore how people are seen, how they choose to be seen, and what remains beyond the surface of an image.
Ultimately, the work is about humanity. The figure becomes a point of encounter: a space where identity can remain specific without becoming limiting.
Selected Career
Selected Projects & Recognition
Institutional & Exhibition
Juror · Toronto
Norman Rockwell Museum
Media & Cultural Projects
NBC
NBC
Selected Partnerships
Practice
Black Rabbit Gallery · Toronto
Beyond the Studio
An Expanded Practice
Bing’s practice has developed across spaces that are not traditionally separated by the art world — galleries, public space, sport, design, television, business, education, and community.
Black Rabbit Gallery
Artist.
Founder.
Builder.
Benny Bing founded Black Rabbit Gallery in 2026 after more than a decade of building an artistic career beyond a single conventional pathway.
The gallery grew from that lived experience: the belief that artists can build meaningful careers in many different ways, and that knowledge, relationships, and opportunity become more valuable when they are shared.
Black Rabbit extends Bing’s practice beyond the studio into exhibitions, mentorship, artist development, community programming, and the creation of new pathways for artists and collectors.
The goal is not to reproduce his path. It is to make room for others to build their own.